Università Roma Tre

1. Introduction to general pediatrics: characteristics and peculiarities
2. Developmental Ages of Pediatrics: psychomotor development, anatomy and physiology, characteristics of the child in early and late childhood, principles of auxology
3. Teething
4. Nutrition in pediatric age: breastfeeding and formula feeding, complementary feeding, self-weaning, the importance of the Mediterranean diet as a healthy lifestyle
5. Childhood obesity
6. Nutrition as an important relationship tool
7. The development of language organic and psychic bases and the delay of language development
8. Respiratory tract infections in pediatric age
9. The main gastrointestinal infectious diseases
10. Children with special needs (autism, down syndrome, diabetes, congenital pathologies, celiac disease, hyperactivity)
11. Monozygotic and dizygotic twins
12. Functional and dysfunctional families, parenting
13. Children with disadvantaged families or family conflicts, bereavement, divorce
14. New Models of Families
15. Fever and Pain: A Brief Overview of Physiology. How to measure fever and what to do about it
16. What are febrile convulsions and what should be done about them?
17. Exanthematous diseases and skin rash
18. Vaccinations in pediatric age and the calendar of life
19. Allergies
20. Pediatric emergencies and accidents: Fever, Cough, Colds, Skin rashes and exanthems, trauma, excoriations and wounds, sunburn, sunstroke and heat stroke, accidental ingestion of a foreign body what you need to know how to do (theoretical and practical part with exercise)
21. First aid (practical exercise)
22. Child hygiene in early and late childhood, oral hygiene, the use of creams and diapers, clothing
23. Continence, hints of physiology and enuresis
24. The International Convention on the Rights of the Child and Adolescent of 1989
25. The game and sporting activity
26. Behavior disorders .
27. The mechanism of somatization
28. The maltreated child, neglect and abuse
29. The Interview with Parents. (Group work exercises with simulated situations).

Part of the program is dedicated to early childhood and applications to educational contexts for childhood.

Riccardo Riccardi, Vademecum di diagnosi e terapia pediatrica
Editore: Com Publishing